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Employee Dead, One Arrested After Shooting Inside Escambia County Home Depot
August 11, 2023
A female employee is dead and one person is in custody following a shooting Friday afternoon at an Escambia County Home Depot.
Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said law enforcement responded to a reported active shooter at Home Depot on Davis Highway at Brent Lane about 1:30 p.m. Officers arrived to find one female deceased inside the store; the victim appeared to be a Home Depot “contract employee”, he said.
“It was reported that two other people suffered minor injuries and this shooting wasn’t random. The suspect knew the victim,” the ECSO said.
The suspect has been identified as 20-year old Keith Eric Agee of Calvert, Alabama. Simmons said he called police from the Mellow Mushroom on Bayou Boulevard and surrendered. He is charged with first degree premeditated murder and aggravated battery using a deadly weapon, according to jail records. He is being held without bond.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, Pensacola Police Department, Florida Highway Patrol and multiple other agencies quickly surrounded the store following the shooting.
Pictured: The scene at Home Depot on Davis Highway shortly after a shooting that left one person dead Friday afternoon. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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38 Responses to “Employee Dead, One Arrested After Shooting Inside Escambia County Home Depot”
@Common Sense
Again, our legal system is imperfect. As long as capital punishment is legal, a non-zero number of innocent people *will* die for crimes they did not commit.
Again, the only way to make capital punishment cheaper than life in prison is to rush it, including overriding the appeals process. Which results in more innocent people dying.
Again, what benefits do you see behind executing people over incarcerating them? And how many innocent people are you willing to sacrifice to make that happen?
I think our society is absolutely crazy right now. The only people prospering are attorneys. I see attorney billboards for hundreds of miles they are the worst people and look for ways to exploit people’s pain for financial gain. There are attorneys on this post who lecture people and they lack common sense. Lethal injection done in a timely manner saves money. Keeping them alive to die naturally is not justice.
REGARDING:
“the only thing dummer than believing in such ideology is to argue with someone about it”
I do many dumb things.
I don’t expect those committed to other viewpoints to change them, but those undecided might want to consider more than just one viewpoint.
If people ignore the blowing trumpet, that’s on them.
If I don’t try to blow the thing, that’s on me.
(I blow it a lot.)
David for rose-colored glasses yet clear vision
David for truth, I want to tell you a little story.
A young man from the wrong side of town, a black man, joined the Air Force. He became a pilot and an officer and died in Colorado Springs as a 2 star General.
He was Chappie James, born and raised in Pensacola..
He was assigned to an AFB in Ohio in his early days. He and several young Officers
went to the Officers Club one night. They were a little cocky that night and didn’t like the fact that Blacks had to enter thru the back door, so they entered thru the unforbidden front entrance. They were arrested and taken to the Brigg. An important classified top-secret report had to be flown to the Pentagon. The only qualified pilot for that plane to be used was Chappie James. Re was released from jail, flew the mission and then put back in jail when he returned.
There are many more examples where when, they applied themselves made a
good life. I worked with many in the Air Force. The only monies that needs spent is on training and developing family units. Where there is no hope, crime ensues. The lack ofGod in all our lives is the other main issue.
@Bewildered
There is a positive correlation between low poverty and low crime. When people aren’t desperate enough to resort to desperate measures to provide for their families, the crime rate drops.
No one is talking about government provided cleaning services. We’re talking about the reality that the best way to reduce crime is through reducing cost of living.
While we argue about taxes, welfare, inequality, and people innocently being put to death, I’m going to advocate for the death penalty here bc….he, the suspect, admitted to it, told leo where to pick him up, etc. Point blank, he admitted it. Witnesses accounted for it. Give trial, convict and lights out. Take as little of my hard earned rising taxes and take care of business. I’m working three jobs to just to stay afloat.
I always get a kick out of David Huie Green‘s rose colored view of events. Have the government pay everyone at least $100,000 yearly, no strings attached, have meals delivered to their houses, send in house cleaners, take care of their laundry and keep their numerous girl friends away from each other and all is well. Maybe this works on another planet….
the only thing dummer than believing in such ideology is to argue with someone about it
One cannot count the times when murderers plead out and avoided a long drawn out trial simply because the murderous cowards did not want to receive the ultimate punishment. The death penalty has saved millions of dollars in legal fees and trial costs not to mention the agony love ones would have faced while reliving the murder of their love ones in a long exasperating trial!
@David
I think we agree: as long as we have both capital punishment and an imperfect legal system, a non-zero number of innocent people are going to be wrongfully convicted and executed.
If someone advocates for the death penalty, I want to know how many innocent people they are comfortable with killing for a punishment that, as far as I can tell, has no practical benefits.
Hey David for truth. Rest assured that there is video of this guy parking his car, walking inside , searching for his target, pulling the gun, killing her and fleeing. No need for witnesses. Go back to your moms basement now.
REGARDING:
“It’s incredibly disturbing that so many of you are advocating killing people because “it’s cheaper than keeping them alive”. Regardless though, that’s a moot point. Executing a prisoner is *significantly* more expensive than life in prison.”
Most are not advocating execution because of cost savings but as an answer to the question of what benefits it may provide. Kindness to killers seems wrong even though unkindness is definitely wrong.
Their guts tell them that killing killers is the right response if only to be sure that particular killer never has the chance to kill again.
“Better a hundred guilty should go free rather than one innocent be convicted,” does not make mathematical sense (unless I’m one of the accused, guilty OR innocent). If you release one hundred killers and each kills again, you have not reduced total dead. If you incarcerate them, at least their victim pool will be limited to criminals and/or guards.
Actually killing someone is inexpensive. A drop from a height, a plastic bag, a mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, an injection of fresh water,…. The high cost of killing is legal expenses to be sure the innocent are not killed and frivolous motions intended to raise the cost by those who are opposed on basic grounds. Thankfully, DNA testing is not only proving the innocence — or casting doubt on the guilt — of the few wrongly convicted but assuring convictions of guilty accused.
Real lie detectors would be nice. Eyewitness testimony is unreliable. Clockwork Orange reprogramming killers would be interesting.
David for truth
People’s lack of comprehension about “per capita” versus “number of” is so off the chart my head hurts. Have any of you traveled or actually been anywhere other than LA?
And what? New York is now hiding murders under COVID deaths? That’s the exact opposite of what deniers have been saying since 2020.
Y’all turn off the Internet and teevee and touch grass, please.
1) There is no measurable correlation between capital punishment and a reduction in murder rates. If someone cares so little about their own life that they aren’t afraid of being incarcerated for life, then they likely don’t care enough about their life to be afraid of execution.
2) It’s incredibly disturbing that so many of you are advocating killing people because “it’s cheaper than keeping them alive”. Regardless though, that’s a moot point. Executing a prisoner is *significantly* more expensive than life in prison.
3) Our legal system isn’t perfect. False convictions happen. If someone is convicted to life imprisonment, then their conviction is later overturned, they can have their freedom restored. If someone is executed, then new evidence is presented that exonerates them, there is no “undo” button. As long as we have capital punishment, we are accepting that we are choosing to kill a non-zero number of innocent people.
Bob@@@@
You want to feed the future inmate for 50 years???
Let him have free medical help
Free meals
Free room and board???
I myself I don’t want to pay that bill
Is cheaper than life.
Capital punishment is a joke. If more capital punishment was carried out, maybe these murderers would be less apt to kill someone. They are sentenced to life without parole, yet in 20 or so years, get paroled.
REGARDING:
“What would capital punishment accomplish that life in prison would not?”
Fair point. Put killers in suspended animation by freezing until such time as you can revive them as non-killers or the refrigeration equipment fails or is turned off. They will hurt nobody else in the meantime.
Other than that, only fear of death stops some from killing — nobody actually knows how many, just that it fails to stop all.
Fear of life in prison (surrounded by killers) probably stops some from killing — nobody actually knows how many, just that it fails to stop all.
Fear of the cost of a lawyer to get an acquittal for murder probably stops some from killing — nobody actually knows how many, just that it fails to stop all.
Absolute certainty of being caught and punished would probably stop more than the other deterrents, but many think they got away with it if they die before being executed and know many murders are never solved or juries acquit the guilty.
By the way, a number of killers would never murder again without the same set of circumstances. An uncle of mine was a murderer but was usually harmless as he walked around a free man.
It is a shame about all the folks involved in this murder.
David for better people and freezers
@Benard
Escambia County has a population of 322,000. With 34 murders, that’s 10.5 murders per 100,000 residents.
New York City has a population of 8.5 million. With 467 murders, that’s 5.5 murders per 100,000 residents.
Put another way, if you live in Escambia County, you are almost twice as likely to be murdered compared to someone living in New York City.
REGARDING:
“If we want to mitigate our crime rate, we should be making changes to raise our median income, lower cost of living, and providing addiction counseling. Until we actually target the sources of crime, it’s never going to get better.”
People are the source of all crimes — people willing and wanting to harm other people. Most with criminal intents will not avail themselves of counseling even if instantly and freely available. Nor is there certainty the counsel will be heeded. A former president, for example, ignored all the legal advice offered and shopped for lawyers who would agree to his crimes.
While it is true people with higher incomes tend to commit fewer crimes, this does not show cause-effect. More money doesn’t make a person instantly better. (Some even use money to commit crimes previously out of reach.) Better people tend to earn more money, faithfully go to work, and commit fewer crimes — and are often older and more mature, two groups tending away from crimes.
Lowering my cost of living won’t make me less likely to commit crimes, but I’ll accept it gladly. Consider the fact that the cost of living in prison is zero to the inmates, yet they still commit crimes in prison. Either they were raised to prey on others or criminality is innate.
And I pity the family and loved ones of the murdered girl and others who were injured.
David for better people
#1- there’s no fathers in homes.
#2- Bob, it’s incarceration. , not incorporation.
#3- there is evil in this world. It comes from one source.
#4- only way to stop a bad guy with a guy is to have a good guy with a gun.
#5- no explaining this senseless act.
@capital punishment
Why?
What would capital punishment accomplish that life in prison would not?
And by the way Bob many killings in New York are not reported as killings.
Bob Escambia county had 34 killings vs New York’s 467 So the old adage figures can lie.
John incorporation has never lowered crime but adds a plethora of bills in the form of staff, and new ordinances. Just hire more deputies but wait we can’t hire enough to fill the vacancies we have. City police forces tend to be poorly trained and poorly educated I know I served on a city police force. Corruption in small cities is very high.
We have a good fire service and sanitation is good. Water is good. So incorporation gets you more bills, a poorly educated and understaffed police force and still people will shoot each other if they want to. Say nothing of out of state killers.
Again the judicial system has failed
@P’cola Native, very well said. This guy came from another state to commit this crime, and I agree with you that it’s unfair to blame our law enforcement officers who do a great job.
@anne one of two
Actually, with the exception of outliers like Chicago and Detroit, cities tend to have lower violent crime rates than rural areas.
Escambia County has a murder rate of approximately 11.4 per 100,000 (the murder rate here fluctuates year by year. That was the rate from 2021). New York City’s murder rate is 5.5 per 100k. Los Angeles is 10.4. Seattle is 7.1. Los Angeles is 9.9.
Escambia County pours plenty of resources into *reacting* to crimes, but woefully little preventing them. If we want to mitigate our crime rate, we should be making changes to raise our median income, lower cost of living, and providing addiction counseling. Until we actually target the sources of crime, it’s never going to get better.
Wish we could do capital punishment this guy needs to be a target for
Agee came here from Alabama to commit this murder. How can everyone blame our county/city for this happening? Authorities here had no way of knowing this this man was coming and what he was coming here to do. It doesn’t make sense to blame those in leadership for any crime. It’s the evil hearted people that commit murder, etc. and our law enforcement doesn’t have crystal balls telling them what bad things are about to happen. Our law enforcement agencies here are doing the best they can and I think they do a wonderful job.
To all yall thinking the county is to blame. NAH…
This has crime of passion all over it. This type of crime has been going on since the dawn of mankind.
One person made at another and have that feeling of OWNERSHIP where they think harming them will get them back.
Also to those blaming the county…………………. Just stop……….. We have some of the best law enforcement and Justice system around. and your bias of anything should be re-examined through a more neutral point of view.
As long as the current judicial system is in place this is going to continue and get worse!
This county is going down fast. Top leadership aka the commissioners are completely partly to blame. Another is the lack of incorporated cities in Escambia County that would have their own police force. You have 330k in Escambia county with only 2 incorporated areas and only one has their own police force in Pensacola. But Pensacola only takes up 1/6th of the county population and area. So that leaves 280k for Ecambia Sheriff to handle and they are overwhelmed and understaffed. So that leaves the rest of the blame on everyone else who doesn’t want annexation by Pensacola or other incorporated towns to form to create their own police force like Beluah. Again no wants to pay city taxes as well but this is the price you pay. VERY HIGH CRIME ! Before you say it Davis Hwy Home Depot is just out side the Pensacola city limits so you can’t post a rebuttal telling me it was in Pensacola.
Just take a look at the crime in the big cities, little cities are copying the crime. It’s the way the world is going and it is is sad to see the safe country we love slipping away. There is no place free from crime anymore.
@Big Jim
Imagine thinking that everyone who wants to make their community better should leave.
Probably a jealous boyfriend. So sad this had to happen. Praying for the family and friends of this lady that was shot and killed.
@ThePatriot
You are free to leave.
I said that before
but yet the people who
have live here all our lives
has seen this coming but NO ONE
will listen……….
Escambia county is turning into a cesspool.